Star Trek: Relaxation

[dieastra]

Hey, annejack, are you still around? I have a new picture for you!

"Jim, you're too tense, you need to relax, you have some awful knots in your shoulders!"

"I can't, those pesky Tribbles are everywhere!"

(This picture was made for the prompt word "relaxation")

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Ha, this is great! :D

[dieastra]

Thank you! See, I already have reached November 2019, when we were still blissfully unaware *sigh

[hamsterwoman]

See, I already have reached November 2019, when we were still blissfully unaware *sigh*

Haha, tempting to stay there, in the simpler, blissful time :P

It aired somewhat in Spring this year and I saw an interview with the actors, where they felt like déjà vu, when everything from filming then started to happen in real life - the mask wearing etc.

No, you hadn't mentioned it but I can imagine how freaky it would be. And actually I had a similar experience with a book this year -- Sarah Pinsker's Song for a New Day, which was published in September 2019 and has two timelines, one in which the world descends into a pandemic and another that picks up like a decade later, in a world that basically got "stuck" in social distancing mode. I read it this summer, and it was a really odd feeling -- definitely that sense of deja vu, but also "hey, that's not how it was!", when of course there was no "how it was" when the book was written. But, yeah, I didn't find it offputting like I thought I might.

[dieastra]

I once watched a TV documentation about five ways how the world would end one day. Asteroid, Grand Canyon vulcan exploding, black hole, don't remember the fourth but pandemic also was a possible way

[hamsterwoman]

there the military are the bad guys and the people resisting are the good guys, which is a bit dystopian and not the message you want to put out now.

Nod. Yeah, actually, the author of the book I mentioned had something similar happen, too -- a large point in the book is that people are social distancing past the point where it's necessary, because the government just put those regulations in place and never took them away. And when I got to hear the author speak afterwards, already during Covid, she was saying, "I keep having to explain to people that I'm not against social distancing -- social distancing wasn't a thing when I wrote the book!" (and the circumstances are different -- they're not in the middle of an active pandemic at that point)

I remember seeing Outbreak! And L watched Contagion with her bio class the previous year, and also kept thinking back to it frequently in the early days of the pandemic.

as well as politicans preparing for it (or at least they should have, as it turns out, they did not take it seriously